18. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that

1.	18. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:In his novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens (1812-70), perhaps the most severe contemporary critic of thehorrors of industrialisation for the poor, wrote a fictional account of an industrial town he aptly called Coketown. 'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it;but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a townof machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves forever andever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, andvast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where thepiston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a stare ofmelancholy madness.'i.ii.(a) Who wrote this excerpt?(b) What was the name of the book?How does he describe the town?Which period and country is the author talking about?chi (1835-1901)iii.
Answer» ANSWER: CHARLES DICKENS WROTE this EXCERPT.

18. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:In his novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens (1812-70), perhaps the most severe contemporary critic of thehorrors of industrialisation for the poor, wrote a fictional account of an industrial town he aptly called Coketown. 'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it;but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a townof machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves forever andever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, andvast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where thepiston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a stare ofmelancholy madness.'i.ii.(a) Who wrote this excerpt?(b) What was the name of the book?How does he describe the town?Which period and country is the author talking about?chi (1835-1901)iii.

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